2023-05-07 08:03:45
Russia has blamed Ukraine for the car bomb attack on the well-known writer Zakhar Prilepin, who is close to the Kremlin, and has spoken of a “terrorist attack”. Kiev did not claim responsibility for the assassination in which Prilepin was seriously injured on Saturday – but did not deny involvement either.
According to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, the investigation into the assassination attempt on the 47-year-old Prilepin has not yet been completed. “But it is already clear from the materials (…) that there is talk of another terrorist attack organized and carried out by the Kiev regime and behind which Western curators stand.”
Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
When asked by the online newspaper Ukrajinska Pravda, a representative of the Ukrainian secret service SBU said that they would “neither confirm nor deny” involvement in such attacks. A Ukrainian partisan movement called Atesh had previously indicated that it was behind the attack. At first, however, it was unclear how credible this message was.
Prilepin was seriously injured when an explosive device attached to his car detonated. Its driver died. The nationalist writer (“Sankya”) is a staunch supporter of Russia’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine. He’s fought there too.
Police arrested a man born in 1993 as a suspect shortly following the explosion, which took place in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region east of Moscow. The governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Gleb Nikitin, announced that Prilepin had meanwhile been operated on. He suffered multiple broken bones.
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